schmidhuber-1987-thesis-foundational-meta-learning
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Schmidhuber's 1987 thesis 'Evolutionary principles in self-referential learning' is the foundational reference for the meta-learning field.
Summary
Schmidhuber's 1987 doctoral thesis is treated as the origin point of the meta-learning field, so any claim about what meta-learning is or where its ideas come from ultimately rests on that single document. It functions as the genealogical anchor for the discipline: if you are building or evaluating a theory of learning-to-learn, this is the baseline you are either extending or contesting.